Investing.com – Russia stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Mining, Telecoms and Oil & Gas sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia lost 0.65%.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia were Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI), which rose 7.89% or 0.0612 points to trade at 0.8370 at the close. Meanwhile, VTB (MCX:VTBR) added 2.69% or 0.0014 points to end at 0.0554 and Safmar Finansovye Investitsii PAO (MCX:SFIN) was up 2.38% or 16.5 points to 710.0 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were United Company Rusal Plc (MCX:RUAL), which fell 17.73% or 6.100 points to trade at 28.310 at the close. SG mechel (MCX:MTLR) declined 3.26% or 4.25 points to end at 126.15 and Polyus OAO (MCX:PLZL) was down 3.07% or 138.0 points to 4359.0.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 125 to 86 and 27 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was down 7.34% to 19.830 a new 1-month low.
Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.50% or 6.60 to $1335.10 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in May fell 1.83% or 1.16 to hit $62.38 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract fell 1.35% or 0.92 to trade at $67.41 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.69% to 58.1012, while EUR/RUB rose 0.97% to 71.3013.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.28% at 89.87.